Mobile apps are increasingly cloud-based, relying on backend services hosted in the cloud for performance, availability, and security. The document recommends several tools and services for testing mobile app performance on real devices, debugging mobile web pages, and building scalable mobile backends in the cloud. It emphasizes that mobile and cloud technologies work hand in hand to power the best mobile experiences.

1. Mobile and the Cloud
Ernest Mueller

2. The Virtuous Cycle of
Agile, Cloud, Mobile and
Social
- Israel Gat, Cutter Consortium
theagilexecutive.com

3. mobile apps are cloud apps
mostly

4. performance
availability
security

7. Mobile Performance
• Blaze.io/mobile – test your Web site on
real mobile hardware, and optimize
• Google Pagespeed Online –
recommends mobile optimizations
• Keynote MDP – test and monitor your
mobile apps on real mobile hardware
• Cotendo – CDN for mobile
• Steve Souders, Google Web perf guru -
http://stevesouders.com/mobileperf/

9. Weinre – WebInspector Remote – debug Web pages live on your mobile device

10. Mobile App Backend Services
• Kinvey.com (Austin based!)
• Stackmob.com
• Roll your own on Heroku, Google App
Engine, Azure, Amazon
• Or, try the LV dotCom Cloud
Framework!

11. Cloud and mobile
BFFs 4ever!